diff --git a/hledger-ui/hledger-ui.cabal b/hledger-ui/hledger-ui.cabal
index 82b53e845..688f59b68 100644
--- a/hledger-ui/hledger-ui.cabal
+++ b/hledger-ui/hledger-ui.cabal
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ executable hledger-ui
       Paths_hledger_ui
   hs-source-dirs:
       app
-  ghc-options: -Wall -Wno-incomplete-uni-patterns -Wno-missing-signatures -Wno-orphans -Wno-type-defaults -Wno-unused-do-bind
+  ghc-options: -Wall -Wno-incomplete-uni-patterns -Wno-missing-signatures -Wno-orphans -Wno-type-defaults -Wno-unused-do-bind -with-rtsopts=-T
   cpp-options: -DVERSION="1.41.99"
   build-depends:
       base >=4.14 && <4.21
@@ -129,4 +129,4 @@ executable hledger-ui
   if (flag(debug))
     cpp-options: -DDEBUG
   if flag(threaded)
-    ghc-options: -threaded -with-rtsopts=-T
+    ghc-options: -threaded
diff --git a/hledger-ui/package.yaml b/hledger-ui/package.yaml
index 89339b181..76106c693 100644
--- a/hledger-ui/package.yaml
+++ b/hledger-ui/package.yaml
@@ -134,6 +134,7 @@ executables:
     dependencies:
     - base >=4.14 && <4.21
     - hledger-ui
+    ghc-options: -with-rtsopts=-T  # for stats command
     when:
     - condition: flag(threaded)
-      ghc-options: -threaded -with-rtsopts=-T
+      ghc-options: -threaded
diff --git a/hledger/hledger.cabal b/hledger/hledger.cabal
index 7ae6ea53c..9d2d67f4e 100644
--- a/hledger/hledger.cabal
+++ b/hledger/hledger.cabal
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ executable hledger
       Paths_hledger
   hs-source-dirs:
       app
-  ghc-options: -Wall -Wno-incomplete-uni-patterns -Wno-missing-signatures -Wno-orphans -Wno-type-defaults -Wno-unused-do-bind -optP-Wno-nonportable-include-path
+  ghc-options: -Wall -Wno-incomplete-uni-patterns -Wno-missing-signatures -Wno-orphans -Wno-type-defaults -Wno-unused-do-bind -optP-Wno-nonportable-include-path -with-rtsopts=-T
   cpp-options: -DVERSION="1.41.99"
   build-depends:
       Decimal >=0.5.1
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ executable hledger
   if (flag(debug))
     cpp-options: -DDEBUG
   if flag(threaded)
-    ghc-options: -threaded -with-rtsopts=-T
+    ghc-options: -threaded
 
 test-suite unittest
   type: exitcode-stdio-1.0
diff --git a/hledger/package.yaml b/hledger/package.yaml
index 3c395528b..2724dd6b3 100644
--- a/hledger/package.yaml
+++ b/hledger/package.yaml
@@ -217,9 +217,10 @@ executables:
     source-dirs: app
     main: hledger-cli.hs
     cpp-options: -DVERSION="1.41.99"
+    ghc-options: -with-rtsopts=-T  # for stats command
     when:
     - condition: flag(threaded)
-      ghc-options: -threaded -with-rtsopts=-T
+      ghc-options: -threaded
     dependencies:
     - hledger